Version 0.9.827 Patchnotes

Patchnotes for Playtest 2021-05-15

PATCHNOTES 0.9.827

Release has 827 commits; 105,476 additions; 64,865 removals

General UI

• New top left interface with expand/collapse functionality
• Add Dock/Launch and Wallet icons
• Custom scrollbar formatting to match UI
• Improve mouse cursors
• Show move cursor only when moving windows
• Add error message to console for rendering disabled (No WebGL2, or disabled)
• Notifications for bottom right of screen
• Timed and manual removal of individual notifications
• Standardized font sizes and repositioned text, also moved faction ident to new position
• Arrange contact list and chat windows
• Add mining results to notifications
• Right click context menu brings up item popup window with details
• Flavor text now displaying correctly on popups
• Pin, unpin and focus for popups
• Add full category name to item in popup
• Controls on screen for 10secs
• Change selected item highlight
• New error, info and warning popups
• Add drop shadow warning images

Chat

• Chat minimize, close buttons
• Reopen chat from chat icon

Inventory

• Real-time cross window inventory sync
• Real-time sync inventory on production add/deliver
• Real-time sync on pack and unpack ship
• Real-time sync on marketplace buy & sell
• Sync inventory from remote add
• Drag and drop between inventory to inventory
• Updated inventory list display to show type colors on items
• Animate inventory add

Mail

• Inbox page complete
• Link up mail button
• View individual mails from inside folders
• Only displays basic information as proof until design finalized for formatting of it
• View list of mails inside of folders
• Added persistence on changes and clear button for drafts
• Save draft and folder display
• Make checkboxes work properly for form post
• Player search on new compose page
• Move mail between folders
• Mark read/unread and Send mail - and remove recipient from mail list
• Send mail and save draft from compose page
• Set up for custom player folders
• Custom folders fully supported
• Switched recipients to only support one and updated to correct colors
• Open compose in new window
• Mail counter on bottom left icon that updates on any unread mail changes
• Loads in total unread count when first logging in.
• Icon changes to unread icon on any of the changes and back when all mails read

Manufacturing

• Only redirect to active lines if submit success
• Default to single item for manufacturing

Ship-fitting

• Drag and drop to equip and unequip items

Trade

• Formatting for mass & volume when small decimals
• Add tooltips for images
• Improve marketplace headers
• Added filter icon to toggle filter select box
• Added filter to trade hierarchy view
• Added trade graph placeholder

Research

• Fix research scroll bar, size

Space-station

• Add undock button
• Lower gpu when docked
• Add docking undocking db calls

Space

• Change key to Space for flight mode
• Docking
• Undocking spawn near space station
• Don’t grab enter key if focus is in input box
• Load asteroids locations from database
• Load trade gate locations from database
• Load space station locations from database
• Move asteroids
• Fix asteroid scaling
• Per object sizing
• Prepare weapons for beam type lasers
• Initial contact list
• Contact list live distance update
• Sort contact list by distance
• Add contact list icons
• Contact list for mobile objects
• Differentiate item types by color on radar
• Space station collisions
• Improve collision detection
• Change flight mode toggle from Tab to Space
• Add Left Control as Fire
• Show controls fully onscreen in-flight mode
• Highlight selected ship/asteroid/space-station
• Target with keyboard (T nearest, N next)
• Remove launch button when in space
• Highlight target in radar
• Double size of selected item on radar
• Enable docking button when in range
• Disable ship fitting in space
• Improve targeted item name text
• Remove scan effect from everything but target
• Show target condition on HUD
• Max range for mining laser
• Targeting offscreen indicators
• Mining laser cooldown only x0.5 of active time
• Mining sounds
• Add failed activation sounds
• Radar scan effect
• Contact list icons => transparent backgrounds
• Brightened Nebula Skybox
• Add module cool down effect to icons
• Add cooldown indicator for turbo
• Cooldown timer for mining laser
• Asteroids shouldn’t be transparent for emissive
• Clean up audio files
• Add mining laser audio
• Show zoom level on radar
• Radar zoom to <, >
• Trigger docking available sound
• Add docking sound
• Charge docking fee
• Docking request

Weapons

• Beam weapon
• Untargeted beams
• Moving source to moving target tracking
• Mining laser
• Beam asteroid targeting
• Compact beam data
• GPU data transfer and formats for beams
• Source starts further into ship
• Update range on cursor for selected target

Admin

• Add, remove and modify recipes on recipe page in items admin page
• Layout changed to be a nicer two column layout with scrollbar for when a lot of recipe components are added
• Research functionality added and autocomplete on component search input
• Data Dictionary admin functionality added
• Added hierarchical dropdown list for selecting parent in data dictionary
• Add and edit custom locations, map scroll and pan
• Setup display of map with clickable locations using d3
• Add/Edit/Move done with new toggles and new temp color scheme for locations, player map version also added

Infrastructure

• Change builds to use Linux rather than Windows
• Switch to Authorization header
• Add and use Has Chosen Player authorization
• Add location and ship to Pilot auth
• Notifications service
• Use consistent real-time key
• C#9 code improvements
• Nullable pass 1
• Address nullability in login process
• Code tidy ups
• Typescript clean up
• Use shrunk SignalR client
• Fix texture loading
• Add compressed shaders
• Shrink Generated JS
• Cross-server data protection
• Prevent failed pre-authentication connects
• Shorter encrypted token
• Include location in encrypted token
• Improve server-side performance
• Improve skybox minification
• Improve radar minification
• Better compression
• Faster resource generation
• Switch to yarn
• Switch to esbuild
• Deterministic .NET builds
• Improved build messages
• Incremental TS->JS builds
• Add cancellation for faster shutdown
• Fix Babylon.js build break